[ Books ] 'Quicksilver', book 1 of the 'Baroque Cycle' by Neal Stephenson.

[flaviomatani]

As a counterpoint to the very well written but very grim and rather topical 'Parable of the Sower' by Octavia Butler (the book for next month's Bibliogoth), I'm also reading 'Quicksilver', book 1 of the 'Baroque Cycle' by Neal Stephenson. The reviews on Goodreads complain that it hardly has any plot and it is kind of true but it is lovely to hang out in the London of the 17th Century with Boyle, Wilkins, Hooke and Newton, but minus the smells, the fires and the chances of literally losing your head.